The Iceberg That Sank The Titanic

A fascinating and beautiful film that traces the astounding link between a tiny, fragile snowflake that fell to earth more than 100,000 years ago and the fate of the majestic passenger liner, Titanic.

The iceberg that collided with the Titanic on her maiden voyage in the Atlantic Ocean in April 1912 began as a snowflake that dropped in Greenland. As the scientists and geologists who studied and filmed Arctic ice movements reveal, the flake compacted and grew over thousands of years to solid glacial ice, frozen in bedrock and travelled to the Greenland fjords.

Spat from the mother glacier in the Greenland fjords about the same time the first rivets were being driven into the Titanic's hull at a Belfast shipyard, the iceberg then floated south like a deadly armada into its path, colliding with it and drowning 1400 on board in what was one of the greatest disasters in living memory.

The Iceberg That Sank The Titanic explores the face of glaciers and their deceptively calm exterior, which belies the coiled spring of compacted energy within. Their constant melting, changing weight and shape as they journey across the oceans, make them a turbulent and fearsome force to be reckoned with.

The film searches for clues on the sea bed among the deposits iceberg have left, near the final resting place of the "unsinkable'' ship.

With rising global temperatures, could a new generation of "mega-bergs'' be set to plague the busy shipping lanes?